this ai bubble is going to burst any minute now, and we all know what that means: cheap data centre rack space in huge quantities.

can we use server racks to grow salad instead of swindle? i set out to find out: https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/

Sigh.

So it turns out we've mapped the neural connectome of Drosophila *and simulated it in silico*.

https://flywire.ai/

Pop-sci explainer here:

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-emulation-achieved-scientists-run-a-fruit-fly-brain-in-simulation/

Key quote: "The step from a complete connectome to a working computational brain model is not trivial." And there's an even more important finding in this screenshot (alt text via OCR):

"The wiring is the computation".

/1

“I learn by failing, and if the LLM takes that work away from me, I won’t really understand what I’m doing.”

https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.html

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